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Bonnell Thomas Frank <1953->
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Titolo: |
The most disreputable trade [[electronic resource] ] : publishing the classics of English poetry, 1765-1810 / / Thomas F. Bonnell
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
Disciplina: | 070.5094109033 |
Soggetto topico: | Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
English literature - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
English literature - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
Poetry - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
Poetry - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
Publishers and publishing - Great Britain - History | |
Monographic series - Publishing - Great Britain - History | |
Books and reading - Great Britain - History | |
Canon (Literature) | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction: A New Sensibility for Classics; 1. Our Native Classics, Complete and Uniform; After the Greek and Roman Classics; A Classical Apollo for Britannia; Diff'rent Sorts of Fare from a Miscellany; Copyright and Canon; A Reputable Trade-or Pitiful, Beggarly, Precarious?; 2. The Elzevirs of Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis; Gilt by Association; The Character of a University-Printer; Enterprising Scotsmen and the Impartial Briton; An Elzevir for English Poetry; Readers Glad to have them |
3. William Creech and John Boyle: The Classics Spread Across ScotlandThe Most Celebrated British Poets; As Great a Pirate as the Worst; Beattie's Place among that Fraternity; All that is Valuable of the Whole English Poets; The Best Schemes the Most Ruinous; 4. John Bell's Little Trifling Edition Revisited; In the Elzeverian Stile; Pictures of the Highest Authority; The Progress of Piracy; The Brilliancy of its Reception; Booksellers Printing upon One Another; 5. Johnson's Prefaces and Bell's Connected System of Biography; The Magnum Nomen; An Apology to the Partners | |
That Part which you might Call PiracyBell's Use of Johnson's Prefaces; Additional Materials Interwoven; 6. The Best Judges of Vendible Poetry: William Strahan, Joseph Wenman, et al; All the English Poets of Reputation; A Considerable Degree of Demand; The Parnassian Library of Wenman; Every Syllable Written by the Respective Authors; Rendering the Collection More Complete; 7. Robert Anderson's Comprehensive View of English Poetry; Active and Liberal Cooperation between Publisher and Editor; Appearing as Editor; Scatter'd Gems that Round Parnassus Shine | |
The Cheapest and Most Perfect Edition of British PoetsWanting to Complete the Arrangement; 8. Charles Cooke's Pocket Library; The Important Object of Easy Purchase; Stamped with Universal Approbation; Ardour and the British Bard; Attracting the Notice of the Artist; Ornamental for the Book-Case; 9. John Sharpe and Alexander Chalmers: A Body of Standard English Poetry; The Truly Eminent English Poets; Deviation from Preceding Systems; To the Curious in Prints; The Minnow Tribe Swims on; Perpetuating Editions in this Manner; 10. Splinter Canons, Fugitives, and Empire | |
The 'Old Canon': How Sudden and How Rigid?Classically Fugitive; Rejecting the Female's Rightful Part; English Canons and Scottish (and Irish) Bards; Circulation of the British Classics; Epilogue: A Library to Every House; Select Bibliography; Index of Booksellers, Printers, Publishers; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z | |
Titolo autorizzato: | The most disreputable trade ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4356-4226-0 |
9786611341299 | |
0-19-155973-3 | |
1-281-34129-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910465636403321 |
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